Results. There are, once again, no Public Events on his schedule today, but we know he met with allies in congress behind closed doors at the white house about last gasp efforts to challenge and overturn the results. He is accusing Mitch Mcconnell of disloyalty for refusing to go along with those efforts. His attorney generals last day is tomorrow after bill barr repeated that he will not be seizing Voting Machines nor will he bow to trumps demands to investigate a special counsel to investigate the election. The Washington Post notes that President Trump has turned to a rag tag group of conspiracy theorists, mediahunger lawyers, and other misfits in an attempt to overturn the election. The president s efforts will fail, but the crises facing this country that hes leaving for the Incoming Administration are of course very real. For more im joined by Geoff Bennett at the white house, nbc news correspondent heidi przybyla, who broke a story that biden may invoke the defense production ac
Thank you. Thank you for joining us. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] where you can watch newsmakers and with newsmakers today at 6 00 p. M. Eastern here on c span. Her online anytime at c span. Org. Or any time online here at c span. Org. Is afternoon on cspan, the House Oversight committees hearing on the alleged targeting of political activism and groups by the irs. That is 240 that is at 2 40 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. He has the guts to stand against her. He should be swept from this. Parliamentary expressions. A few weeks ago the Prime Minister seem to recall the error. I cannot remember the details of it now. A whole lot of expressions. It was the lying. Nobody can ever find that. It is probably a mess. Homeland security outlined jeh johnson his agenda involving Cyber Security issue in legislation. It was his first major address since his confirmation in december. He spoke at the Wilson Center and
Whatever. But it but the fact is, p. V. Modules available for about 80 cents a watt. And a reminder, the longstanding holy grail has been about 50 cents a watt. I mean, this is tremendous progress. In fact, now its the soft costs that we have to work on more to to get those down. And, again, you see the cost in deployment. Ill pause here just to say that a harbinger of what is coming is when energy incumbents start to seriously reexamine their Business Models in the face of whats happening. So many of you have seen today, for example, there are some, shall we call them, discussions going on between the Solar Industry and utilities, for example, in terms of how are how are distributed p. V. Systems paid for electricity back to the grid, how are things like Distribution System costs shared, et cetera, et cetera. Well, you know, it was only a few years ago when nobody cared. But the message is, in all of these and i have two more to go through you know, the future may not be always 10 yea
But the loyalty we have for one another. The annual gridiron dinner is being held at the Renaissance Hotel in washington, d. C. All additions and journalists are gathering for speeches and site tiatire. Only president who has not attended was grover cleveland. President obama will be here. He is scheduled to make remarks. He will also visit capitol hill. He will meet with republicans and democrats of both chambers to discuss the deficit. We will take a moment to watch at the scene at the Renaissance Hotel. You are looking at the scene where the Gridiron Club is hosting its dinner tonight. Cameras are not allowed inside the dinner. They are allowing one journalist to report on the evening. You can watch the live stream of arrivals live at cspan. Org. And now cspans the communicators. Last week, Michael Daniels was our guest. Mr. Daniels is the president of cybersecurity cordy nader and his coordinator and is talking about the executive order the president recently issued. This week we h
Reaction from capitol hill. Joining us first is representative mac thornberry, a republican of texas, member to have Intelligence Committee and in the last Congress Task force chair on cybersecurity for the spook beer. Mr. Thornberry, when you look at the president s executive order, whats your initial reaction . Guest that its okay. There are some things that clearly need to be done with an executive order, but some things can only be done with legislation. So part of my reaction is i wish the president had put as much effort into getting some legislation passed and then come out with the executive order rather than the other way around, because i guess one of my fears is its going to take it could potentially take some momentum out of the effort to get legislation passed. Host now, how similar is the president s executive order to the Task Force Recommendations that you made last congress . Guest some things in the executive order are exactly as we recommended that the administration